...on the eve of Christmas day they carry Misletoe to the high altar of the cathedral, and proclaim a public and universal liberty, pardon and freedom to...the gates of the city, towards the four quarters of heaven." In the solemn procession which the Druids made when about to cut the Misletoe, they were accustomed...

...Messiah. This custom prevailed for several centuries in the north of England; and, on Christmas eve " they carried misletoe to the high altar of York Minster,...heavens."* The misletoe has been refused admittance into our Christian temples . but the holly and ivy still hold a mastery there at this joyous season of each...

...On the eve of Christmas-day, they carry misletoe to the high altar of the cathedral, and proclaim a public and universal liberty, pardon, and freedom, to all sorts of inferior or wicked people at the gates of the city, towards the four quarters of heaven." In agreement with...

...on the eve of Christmas-Day, they carry misletoe to the high altar of the cathedral, und proclaim a public and universal liberty, pardon, and freedom...the gates of the city, towards the four quarters of Heaven." " In the Isle of Man," relates Waldron, " on the 24th of December, towards evening, all the...

...on the eve of Christmas-Day, they carry misletoe to the high altar of the cathedral, and proclaim a public and universal liberty, pardon, and freedom...the gates of the city, towards the four quarters of Heaven." "In the Isle of Man," relates Waldron, " on the 24th of December, towards evening, all the...

...on the eve of Christmas-Day, they carry misletoe to the tiigh altar of the cathedral, and proclaim a public and universal liberty, pardon, and freedom...and even wicked people, at the gates of the city, :o\vards the four quarters of Heaven." " In the Isle of Man," relates Waldron, " on the 24th of December,...

...on the eve of Christmas Day they carry MISLETOE to the high altar of the cathedral, and proclaim a public and universal liberty, pardon, and freedom...the gates of the city, towards the four quarters of heaven." The mistletoe of the oak, which is very rare, is vulgarly said to be a cure for wind-ruptures...

...of Christmas Day, at York, they carry mistletoe to the high altar of the Cathedral, and proclaim a public and universal liberty, pardon, and freedom...the gates of the city, towards the four quarters of heaven." What a mingling have we, in this ceremony, of pagan rites with a corruption of Christian principles...

...on the eve of Christmas Day they carry MISLETOE to the high altar of the cathedral, and proclaim a public and universal liberty, pardon, and freedom...the gates of the city, towards the four quarters of heaven." The mistletoe of the oak, which is very rare, is vulgarly said to be a cure for wind-ruptures...

...On the eve of Christmas-day, they carry misletoe to the high altar of the Cathedral, and proclaim a public and universal liberty, pardon, and freedom to all sorts of inferior or wicked people at the gates of the city towards the four quarters of heaven." In agreement with the...